I have thought many times since that if poets when they get discourage…

Mark Twain
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I have thought many times since that if poets when they get discouraged would blow their brains out, they could write very much better when they got well. ✨ Mark Twain, Charles Neider (1986). Mark Twain at his best: a comprehensive sampler : with four items in book form for the first time, Doubleday Books
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